The Culture cover star has been Oscar-nominated five times. We look back at his hits, and the one the Academy missed

Slideshow: Tom Hanks

Some people had seen Tom Hanks in 1987's Dragnet, plenty more had enjoyed him in Splash (1984), but it was with his role as boy-being-a-man in Big (1988) that Hanks became really, well, big. An Oscar-nomination followed, deserved for the actor's unique talent of being upbeat, but very rarely annoying